Ableton Forum

what the hell is namm?

Ha!

that would be yer vote under "I hate namm" cause it will break your heart!

nathannn wrote:what the hell is namm?

Google it.

Namm......

It's kinda like waiting for the crop reports........what we'll be "latching" onto for the next year, although......I took it as a joke/sarcastic statement.....

Yes? No?

Actually NAMM stands for The National Association of Memorial Masons ( stone or brick masons who work on cemetery structures ).

I'm not kidding...


http://www.namm.org.uk/

NAMM reminds me of ham and I think ham is yummy.

It's like Not Hamm!

Namm is like Spamm, but made from mechanically recovered x-session pros and oxygen 8s.

Someone say NAM?

National Association of Music Merchants.

By the way, check out this other Nam - they're friggin stunning.

http://www.birdynamnam.com/

genshi wrote:The new Waldorfs! Check out their new Stromberg synth which has two plugin modules in the back! One is a 16-way Analog Filter bank and the other is a Valve (tube) module for saturation. Looking forward to seeing the return of Waldorf at NAMM.

Damn straight!!!

That Stromberg and the Blofeld both have USB 2.0. Is it possible Waldorf picked up the ball that Access dropped with thier Virus TIs?

If I could use either of those units as a two-stereo out audio interface while porting the synth's internal audio directly via USB 2.0 to Live, I'm SOLD!!!!

M. Bréqs wrote:

genshi wrote:The new Waldorfs! Check out their new Stromberg synth which has two plugin modules in the back! One is a 16-way Analog Filter bank and the other is a Valve (tube) module for saturation. Looking forward to seeing the return of Waldorf at NAMM.

Damn straight!!!

That Stromberg and the Blofeld both have USB 2.0. Is it possible Waldorf picked up the ball that Access dropped with thier Virus TIs?

If I could use either of those units as a two-stereo out audio interface while porting the synth's internal audio directly via USB 2.0 to Live, I'm SOLD!!!!

I for one, am very curious (skeptical) about this new Waldorf as I have heard conflicting reports about who own this company and where they are heading...

I've been told that Hartmann (yes, of Neuron fame) is behind purchasing the Waldorf name and then I've been told CME (Yep, Chinese Music Equipment...) own them. It couldn't be two polar opposites; one who designs classic (pricey, highend) wavetable synths or a company that produces junky midi-controllers...

The sad thing is I could belive either scenario. Waldorf could become a poorly manufactured synth company (novation route or worse, EMU) or continue to create mind blowign synths and head into a "boutique market that nobody will ever see let alone own.

The WORST thing they can do is continue to hide behind photoshop images of products that most folks doubt will ever exist or continue to keep people guessing if they are actually indeed "back". Who owns Waldorf? And why is this taking so long to relay a straight story?

Sorry, but I owned a Q before and it was possibly my favorite synth of all tim. I have always repected that company and was sad to see them go in the first place...

robin wrote:Someone say NAM?

fucking brilliantt.

thelike5 wrote:
I for one, am very curious (skeptical) about this new Waldorf as I have heard conflicting reports about who own this company and where they are heading...

I've been told that Hartmann (yes, of Neuron fame) is behind purchasing the Waldorf name and then I've been told CME (Yep, Chinese Music Equipment...) own them. It couldn't be two polar opposites; one who designs classic (pricey, highend) wavetable synths or a company that produces junky midi-controllers...

The sad thing is I could belive either scenario. Waldorf could become a poorly manufactured synth company (novation route or worse, EMU) or continue to create mind blowign synths and head into a "boutique market that nobody will ever see let alone own.

The WORST thing they can do is continue to hide behind photoshop images of products that most folks doubt will ever exist or continue to keep people guessing if they are actually indeed "back". Who owns Waldorf? And why is this taking so long to relay a straight story?

Sorry, but I owned a Q before and it was possibly my favorite synth of all tim. I have always repected that company and was sad to see them go in the first place...

Yeah, it was a bummer that they folded. I don't know if it was that they had management problems or if they just couldn't move product; either way, there were two companies that should never have closed shop: Waldorf ad Electrix.

Anyways, I've owned the micro Q and loved it. I thought that other than the interface, it was better in all respects than the Virus C, which I also owned at that time.

The possibility that CME may have bought waldorf fills me with dread... But, the good news is that there will be a few more Q plus keyboards floating around, which I've lusted for for years. It looks like Waldorfmusic.de is showing a re-release of Micro Qs and Q keyboards with a black n' red paintjob... These are probably the factory's last models produced, since there's a 200 and 500 unit limit on these final versions.

M. Bréqs wrote:

thelike5 wrote:
I for one, am very curious (skeptical) about this new Waldorf as I have heard conflicting reports about who own this company and where they are heading...

I've been told that Hartmann (yes, of Neuron fame) is behind purchasing the Waldorf name and then I've been told CME (Yep, Chinese Music Equipment...) own them. It couldn't be two polar opposites; one who designs classic (pricey, highend) wavetable synths or a company that produces junky midi-controllers...

The sad thing is I could belive either scenario. Waldorf could become a poorly manufactured synth company (novation route or worse, EMU) or continue to create mind blowign synths and head into a "boutique market that nobody will ever see let alone own.

The WORST thing they can do is continue to hide behind photoshop images of products that most folks doubt will ever exist or continue to keep people guessing if they are actually indeed "back". Who owns Waldorf? And why is this taking so long to relay a straight story?

Sorry, but I owned a Q before and it was possibly my favorite synth of all tim. I have always repected that company and was sad to see them go in the first place...

Yeah, it was a bummer that they folded. I don't know if it was that they had management problems or if they just couldn't move product; either way, there were two companies that should never have closed shop: Waldorf ad Electrix.

Anyways, I've owned the micro Q and loved it. I thought that other than the interface, it was better in all respects than the Virus C, which I also owned at that time.

The possibility that CME may have bought waldorf fills me with dread... But, the good news is that there will be a few more Q plus keyboards floating around, which I've lusted for for years. It looks like Waldorfmusic.de is showing a re-release of Micro Qs and Q keyboards with a black n' red paintjob... These are probably the factory's last models produced, since there's a 200 and 500 unit limit on these final versions.

Well, I heard a vicious rumor from an inside source that Waldorf was bought by M-Audio. I hope that's not true, and I can't confirm that, but I can almost guarantee that at this NAMM show M-Audio will be showing their version of the Access Virus keyboard which they aquired the rights to. It will be based on the Virus A engine shoved into an Oxygen 8-like controller and should sell for under $500. That's my prediction!